Cubelets: Robot Blocks
Cubelets are robot blocks that make it fast and easy to engage children as young as four in learning by building robots.

Finch Robot
The Finch is a robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE lab. The Finch is designed to support an engaging introduction to the art of programming. Lots of built-in sensors.

Hummingbird: Simple Robots
Watch or read our tutorials to learn how to use Hummingbird with MaKey-MaKey, Raspberry Pi, Squishy Circuits, 3D printing, and much more!

Little Bits
Inspire your students to create solutions to real-world problems with STEM/STEAM. By joining our community you’ll get all the tools, resources, and lesson plans to make it happen.

Parallax: Equip Your Genius
For 25+ years Parallax has provided the electronics industry with high-quality robotics, revolutionary microcontrollers, a wide variety of sensors and a complete line of learning kits for beginners and educators.

3D Printing

10 Ways 3D Printing Can Be Used In Education [Infographic]
As far as how this can be used in education, it’s a matter of bringing objects out of the computer screen and into the hands of students for inspection, analysis, and other processes that can benefit from physical manipulation. In that way, 3D . . .

3D / Additive construction in architecture
(2014) A research group at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (iaac.net), based in Barcelona set on a goal of reelaborating 3D printing techniques so as to overcome existing limitations of this technique in large-scale.

3D Printed Peristalic Pump
It is capable of pumping very thick liquids at as much pressure as the tube can handle. It is durable because it is printed at 100% infill at high thicknesses and uses steel ball bearings. It is capable of such strength because it is using a massive . . .

New Levitating 3D Printing Technology Prints In Mid-Air
A new “levitating” 3D printing technology pioneered by Boeing uses a central nugget of magnetic material. The nugget floats above another magnet (or via acoustic waves) and can be twisted and turned as necessary, allowing access to the object from all sid

OLO 3D Printer
A new 3D printer that uses light from a smartphone display to create objects has already garnered more than $800,000 four days into a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

Prosthetic kids hand challenge
We are the Prosthetic Kids, and we print, assemble, and provide 3d-printed prosthetic hands to children in need. We want to issue a challenge: If you have access to a 3D Printer, you can get involved with helping children.

The Raptor Reloaded
The team behind the original Raptor has released the Raptor Reloaded, an updated and re-factored version of the Raptor Hand. The entire device was modeled in Fusion 360, a free CAD tool that can import and export most standard solid body modeling formats

Aurasma
Aurasma is available to anyone with an email address. We help people use augmented reality (AR) to turn everyday objects, images, and places into new, interactive opportunities to engage with their fans and customers through striking graphics, animation,

Google Cardboard
It’s a VR experience starting with a simple viewer anyone can build or buy. Once you have it, you can explore a variety of apps that unfold all around you.

OSMO
Osmo is an award-winning game system that will change the way your child interacts with the iPad by opening it up to hands-on play.

OSMO Coding
Combining tangible blocks with an interactive game. You control Awbie, a playful character who loves delicious strawberries. With each coding command, you guide Awbie on a wondrous tree-shaking, strawberry-munching adventure!

Padlet
It works like a piece of paper. We give you an empty page – a padlet – and you can put whatever you like on it. Drag in a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload some documents, and voilà!

Amino
The Amino One is a general platform: it is a hardware unit that enables you to run any of the current and upcoming Amino Apps, which provide you the all the materials to grow the cool things. Think of it like a computer (the Amino) and its software (the A

DYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader [Video]
Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use. The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence.

Jewelbots: Programmable Bracelets
Kids can make their bracelets light up when a friend is nearby or send messages to a buddy across the room. They can come up with their own functionality and program their Jewelbot to behave in lots of cool ways! Jewelbots work alone, but are more fun wit

Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery
Based on the Tiny328, AAduino takes the platform to its sexiest form factor yet: Turning a three-AA battery holder with two batteries in it — the third battery compartment holds the AAduino — into a powerful, yet diminutive computing platform . . .

Augmented & Virtual Reality

6 Exciting AR Apps for Student Learning
Augmented reality (AR) can serve a variety of purposes in your classroom. This exciting technology layers virtual content on top of the real world, providing an opportunity for students to interact with content in a completely new way.

Aurasma
Aurasma is available to anyone with an email address. We help people use augmented reality (AR) to turn everyday objects, images, and places into new, interactive opportunities to engage with their fans and customers through striking graphics, animation,

Popularity of virtual reality is booming, but impact is mixed
Swirling around in all of the hype and confusion are the usual impact questions: How does this emerging media form work to engage users in social issues? What’s the relationship between engagement, knowledge, story and action? And what does this all cost?

Circuitry & Electronics

Amazon's Raspberry Pi guide lets coders use Alexa
The Raspberry Pi pocket-sized computer was designed by a British charity to encourage children and others to learn how to write computer programs. More than eight million units have been sold or given away.

Chibitronics Interactive Book
Josh Burker – “Recently I talked with Jie Qi for her PhD research about the use of her Chibitronics electronics stickers. My workshop that created collaged images incorporating paper circuits and LED stickers.”

Little Bits
Inspire your students to create solutions to real-world problems with STEM/STEAM. By joining our community you’ll get all the tools, resources, and lesson plans to make it happen.

Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery
Based on the Tiny328, AAduino takes the platform to its sexiest form factor yet: Turning a three-AA battery holder with two batteries in it — the third battery compartment holds the AAduino — into a powerful, yet diminutive computing platform . . .

micro:bit (beta)
The micro:bit is a handheld, fully programmable computer being given free to every Year 7 or equivalent child across the UK. It’s 70 times smaller and 18 times faster than the original BBC Micro computers used in schools in the early 1980s.

Parallax: Equip Your Genius
For 25+ years Parallax has provided the electronics industry with high-quality robotics, revolutionary microcontrollers, a wide variety of sensors and a complete line of learning kits for beginners and educators.

Snap Circuits
Award winning Snap Circuits offer children an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics! With colourful and easy to follow pictorial instructions in the Snap Circuits manuals, kids will have hours of fun experimenting with electricity and building am

Drones

Drones at the University of Saskatchewan
(2015) Drones outfitted with a specialized camera will enable agriculture producers to get real-time information on the health of their crops and improve management practices, explained Gordon Gray, professor in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources

Early Days for Drone Use in Higher Education
(2016). Unmanned aircraft systems offer numerous possibilities in the academic environment, from creating programs aimed at UAS design and construction to finding ways to use them in traditional research across academic disciplines.

Evaluating Drones for Higher Education
Ahmad Khazaee and Kevin Lynch (2015). Learning how to build a drone offers a huge benefit to students from a STEM perspective, but even more exciting are the possibilities for how this technology can transform research and teaching.

Evaluating Drones for Higher Education
(2015) Ahmad Khazaee and Kevin Lynch – What does it mean when someone asks if “drones” can be used in higher education? Does academic deployment of drones have any merit, or should institutions prohibit their use?

Makerspace Articles

Can the Maker Movement Infiltrate Mainstream Classrooms?
(2014). With so much fanfare and media attention on the event, some educators are hopeful that the idea of tinkering as a way of learning might finally have made it back to the mainstream. But will the same philosophy of discovery and hands-on . . .

How to design your own makerspaces
Courtney Pepe (2016). These are some themes and big ideas that I noticed in my travels. Perhaps these big ideas will inspire you to create your own MakerSpace makeover in your own classroom, school, or local community.

Resources for Maker Education
(2016). Find resources and tools to help bring elements of maker culture into schools and classrooms, and encourage students to explore STEAM subjects within the context of maker projects.

Situating Makerspaces in Schools
Hybrid Pedagogy (2015). The maker movement in education jumped on the STEAM bandwagon to gain a foothold, but before we ride that same wagon out the back door it’s time to plan the dismount.

Makerspace Websites

DEVOXX 4 Kids
Teach children Computer Programming while having fun and introduce them to concepts of robotics, electronics and generally being creative with these kind of devices. Some BRILLIANT ideas here.

How to design your own makerspaces
Courtney Pepe (2016). These are some themes and big ideas that I noticed in my travels. Perhaps these big ideas will inspire you to create your own MakerSpace makeover in your own classroom, school, or local community.

Paved Arts
We operate an access centre for media production and post-production, offer training and professional development for media artists, and bring examples of cutting edge work . . .‘PAVED Arts’ arts: photography, audio, video, electronic and digital.

Resources for Maker Education
(2016). Find resources and tools to help bring elements of maker culture into schools and classrooms, and encourage students to explore STEAM subjects within the context of maker projects.

Amazon's Raspberry Pi guide lets coders use Alexa
The Raspberry Pi pocket-sized computer was designed by a British charity to encourage children and others to learn how to write computer programs. More than eight million units have been sold or given away.

DEVOXX 4 Kids
Teach children Computer Programming while having fun and introduce them to concepts of robotics, electronics and generally being creative with these kind of devices. Some BRILLIANT ideas here.

Finch Robot
The Finch is a robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE lab. The Finch is designed to support an engaging introduction to the art of programming. Lots of built-in sensors.

How to Teach Yourself Code [Infographic]
A range of sources to help you decide what programming language is best for you and how you can learn from others to help build your programming knowledge and experience.

Hummingbird: Simple Robots
Watch or read our tutorials to learn how to use Hummingbird with MaKey-MaKey, Raspberry Pi, Squishy Circuits, 3D printing, and much more!

Jewelbots: Programmable Bracelets
Kids can make their bracelets light up when a friend is nearby or send messages to a buddy across the room. They can come up with their own functionality and program their Jewelbot to behave in lots of cool ways! Jewelbots work alone, but are more fun wit

micro:bit (beta)
The micro:bit is a handheld, fully programmable computer being given free to every Year 7 or equivalent child across the UK. It’s 70 times smaller and 18 times faster than the original BBC Micro computers used in schools in the early 1980s.

OSMO Coding
Combining tangible blocks with an interactive game. You control Awbie, a playful character who loves delicious strawberries. With each coding command, you guide Awbie on a wondrous tree-shaking, strawberry-munching adventure!

Parallax: Equip Your Genius
For 25+ years Parallax has provided the electronics industry with high-quality robotics, revolutionary microcontrollers, a wide variety of sensors and a complete line of learning kits for beginners and educators.

Saskatchewan Makerspaces

Paved Arts
We operate an access centre for media production and post-production, offer training and professional development for media artists, and bring examples of cutting edge work . . .‘PAVED Arts’ arts: photography, audio, video, electronic and digital.

Science - Probes - Sensors

Finch Robot
The Finch is a robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE lab. The Finch is designed to support an engaging introduction to the art of programming. Lots of built-in sensors.

iCelcius
The iCelsius is a temperature probe that turns the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a digital thermometer.

Jewelbots: Programmable Bracelets
Kids can make their bracelets light up when a friend is nearby or send messages to a buddy across the room. They can come up with their own functionality and program their Jewelbot to behave in lots of cool ways! Jewelbots work alone, but are more fun wit